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Show Executed Lincoln's Murderers. Captain Christian Rath of Jackson Mich., is a candidate for a singula; r I 1 V CAPT. RATH, position. He desires to be the official" executioner of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin as-sassin of President McKinley. Captain Rath advances as his claim to this distinction that it was he who officiated officiat-ed at the death of the conspirators who were condemned for the murder of Abraham Lincoln. It was this veteran vet-eran who supervised the execution of Mrs. Surratt, Paine, Herrold and At-zeroth, At-zeroth, the persons who were found to be guilty, with John Wilkes Booth, in the plot to take the life of the great liberator. The captain is an old soldier sol-dier of the Union. At the time of the trial of the conspirators he was provost pro-vost marshal of the Washington prison. pris-on. He assisted with his own hands in the erection of the scaffold on which the assassins died. He placed the men uemg ana ln otner ways facilitated the work of execution of the law's mandate. He says he is willing to turn on the current which will end the life of Czolgosz, and will ask no pay for the service save his expenses to the place of execution. |